Uxorious, an adjective, is defined by Webster’s Fourth as “dotingly or irrationally fond of or submissive to one’s wife.” Which makes this seem like a set-up.

In my short exploration, uxorious seems like one of those words that people stumble across and then insert for the wrong reasons in ungainly sentences. What makes the word, it seems to me, is the “dotingly or irrationally” part. Otherwise “fond” or “submissive” would suffice.

Or maybe I am just a sexist jerk.

What you found is so unlike the nice, uxorious man you’re married to, who jokes about his lack of interest in pornography.

It goes without saying that few actors do surly better than Tommy Lee, which is why his conversion to uxorious renewal makes for decent dramedy.

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Footnotes

“And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.” – Exodus 32:14.

“Even then,
When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking,
And agony's forgot, and hushed the crying
Of credulous hearts, in heaven -- such are but taking
Their own poor dreams within their arms, and lying
Each in his lonely night, each with a ghost.” -- Rupert Brooke, 1913

“Unconceivable, unbelievable; Grammar like a hammer information receivable; Sent by the Lord, here and abroad; with words well adored now they can't be ignored!” Run DMC, “Tougher Than Leather”

“...some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, ‘Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.” -- 2 Kings 2:23-24

"You don't get it, do you? This isn't 'good cop, bad cop.' This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble."